UAB is doing something earnestly awesome for the kids. The football team will don uniforms that will feature names of kids not actually on the roster. Instead, each player will have a name on their back that is actually that of a sick child from a hospital.

This past week UAB revealed that the jerseys the Blazers will be wearing for their homecoming game against Louisiana Tech will feature the names of patients at Children’s Harbor. After the game, the players will donate the jerseys to the kids whose names are on the back.

From the school’s release:

“The UAB football team adopted Children’s Harbor as one of their community charities in 2016 and the Blazers make regularly scheduled trips to the hospital to build relations and encourage patients.”

“Children’s Harbor serves seriously ill children and their families through unique, no-cost services at the Family Center inside the Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children in Birmingham, and at the camp facility at Lake Martin in Alexander City, Ala.”

Head coach Bill Clark also released a statement:

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“Children’s Harbor has absolutely become a part of the Blazer family,” said head coach Bill Clark in a statement. “I intend for this relationship to grow with our program. As we build, there will be even more we can do to provide encouragement and a positive distraction to support the terrific work Children’s Harbor does.”

Get to know the names of the kids. Everyone is a UAB fan now:

Here is to hoping good comes out of this, even if only small.